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BERLIN — Germany's multi-year reign as the world's No. 1 exporter is officially over, with the crown formally passing to rising Asian power China after new figures showed that German exports slid by nearly a fifth in 2009, the biggest decline in 6...

BERNE/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European states lined up behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel to expose tax cheats in a combined assault on the Swiss banking secrecy laws that help protect them.

Germany has told Switzerland it is ready to pay for data on cross-border tax cheats, dealing a fresh blow to bank secrecy laws in the Alpine nation as it struggles to break a deadlock with the U.S. tax authorities over disclosure at banking giant ...

CAIRO — Iranian officials continued to cast blame for the nation’s recent political crisis on foreign interference on Wednesday, focusing their ire for the first time on Germany, one of the country’s closest trading partners, with an accusation th...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Post-war Germany suffered its worst ever recession last year when Europe's biggest economy contracted by five percent in the global slump, official figures showed on Wednesday.

Some 160 drivers who had been trapped for hours in 2m (78in) snow drifts in north-east Germany have been rescued.

China and its population of 1.3 billion has overtaken Germany, population 82 million, as the world's top exporter, trade figures from the German national statistics office showed on Friday.

BERLIN — A jet headed for Spain's Canary Islands came off the runway at Dortmund airport in western Germany on Sunday, but no one was injured, authorities said.

A German computer scientist has published details of the secret code used to protect the conversations of more than 4bn mobile phone users.

A survey released Tuesday showed that consumer confidence in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, continued to decline amid fears of job losses.